IDC: A New Path for Enterprise File Sharing with Intralinks VIA

Overview: Intralinks (ticker: IL) recently announced general availability of its new Intralinks VIA service positioned to bring enterprise capabilities to the growing world of SaaS-based collaboration and workflow. Intralinks VIA is designed for especially for firms that value enterprise-grade security and granular administration control.

IDC believes there is a strong and growing role for these services to help many organizations offer their users convenient SaaS-based sharing, while "keeping the lid" on use of consumer-grade file sync and share services.

Intralinks VIA participates in what IDC calls the Enterprise Cloud Collaboration Content (eC3) market, positioned against popular "sync and share” services like Box, Dropbox, Huddle, and Citrix Sharefile, in the broader business collaboration market, but differentiated by more robust security, controls and other necessary features for enterprise use.